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Sorry, is this a reference to the Congresswoman born in Somalia, but living in the US since the age of 12??

Well, Linda, if that is the point then it’s time to use your political skills for a movement to amend the Constitution, which has set down strict qualifications of naturalisation and age for a variety of public offices since ratification…[Read more]

What, you mean that despite the statistical evidence that there is no poverty in the US gathered by the Trumper Heritage Foundation, you will listen to the liberal MSM and the UN? It’s figures, innit?

I mean, poverty in the US? Does anyone believe that there is poverty in the US any more apart from liberals and traitors????

Don’t let the…[Read more]

Good to know that Cleared’s view that there is no poverty in the US is being considered seriously and uncritically by our resident analyst.. And it’s got statistical evidence, too, surprise, surprise.

By the way, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that you may well be interested in buying.

Jez, you never read do you? You don’t read your links…[Read more]

Yes, that is what Ms K means.

But she was saying much more than this, which is why End of can’t be End of.

She was writing in the context of a discussion begun by Linda about lazy immigrants and the honest hard working rich. My response was in that context, too.

Trumponomics has seen record levels of employment among other things, though our…[Read more]

Ms K, there people who exploit the benefits system in this country, including sickness benefits, and this is used to attack everyone on benefits, including sickness benefits.

But most are on benefits for a good reason. To give an example, my cousin is in his 50s and has been on sickness benefit all his life. They are continually withdrawing the…[Read more]

I wasn’t talking about sugar coats. I used the term ‘sugar rush’ into the economy.

as in going on a sweet cake binge. The person who fills their gob with sugar. Tastes really sweet, and you’re tempted to make it even more, more, more. But at some point in the future, you is going to pay for it.

Trump’s sugar rush involves a number of things,…[Read more]

What in Hell is wrong with you?

Do you not read your own links? Read them again before you start bawling people out.

The link states

United States Population in 2000

In 2000, 75.1% of the population reported their race as white,

United States Population in 2010

In 2010, the largest racial group was white at 72% of the…[Read more]

The moronic racist chanting of Send Them Home the other day brought home to many people the dangerous racism developing under Trump.

Sajid Javad, the Tory Home Secretary – who grew up in Bristol, playing on the Stapleton Road – has spoken of how that chant ‘Send Them Home’ reminded him of similar chants in Britain , and the way they made him and…[Read more]

This is totally inadequate.

I hadn’t really thought about Ilhan Omar until this thread prompted me to google and wiki her, leading me to some good papers on the video doctored by Trump which I pointed to earlier in this thread.. I know how inadequate these can be, but until someone shows me better, she emerges as an incredibly aware person who…[Read more]

many thanks Ms K. I’ve known you for many years now, and you have a knack of making a good and encouraging point at the right time. So shines a good deed in a naughty world, to borrow a quote.

I didn’t know abut Thin’s raising of his kids. I’ve always been a bit ambiguous about him, and still am, but my respect for him deepened on this. There…[Read more]

Bristol is no more friendly or welcoming a city than anywhere else. I’ve been in a Bristol nightclub where someone got their head cut by a beer glass being broken on it.

But, ge,  you seem to have a knowledge of the prices of women on City Road in the 1970s, which I genuinely don’t. I lived 5 minutes walk from there, and someone in the house…[Read more]

Yes, the Arnolfini. When I lived in Bristol (NOT in the 80s) it was an alternative cinema. I knew a lot of different people in Bristol, but the middle class people were squatting just where the University library is now situated. Genuinely homeless people were squatting there too, and they were very resentful of the middle classes slumming it…[Read more]

Well, Paigey, my connections to East Bristol, dating back a long time, ended abruptly in June last year.

But my memories of Bristol in the past are not good ones. If you asked anyone for directions, I was surprised by how many say they didn’t know, they just gave you the wrong directions (this may have changed?). A friend of mine lived in a house…[Read more]

Now both Johnson and Hunt, the former likely to be the next lootenant governor of the UK Territory, said that Trump’s statements about the 4 congresswomen were not acceptable, but explicitly refused to say they were racist.

Hunt said that he wasn’t prepared to use such language because of the difficult position in which the UK now found…[Read more]

I’ve been here 10 years, most of the time here on the boards.

And, yes, that’s not something to be proud about.

I’m trying to keep to the point of the thread here because it’s an important thread, so ignring some of the comments doesn’t mean I agree with them.

I gatehr there’s proof, but can’t swear to it as I’ve not seen the videos.

Like everything else, we have to go on trust until our sources are proven inaccurate. It would be ideal to check out sources thoroughly, but unfortunately for obvious reasons it’s not possible.

However, see the following for one of the doctored…[Read more]

What’s liberal about that nasty Panorama programme, whihc was everything you say it was?

The BBC has changed since its liberal heyday.